Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "attempted-suicide-by-hanging"

1. The Pope's Exorcist (2023)

R | 103 min | Horror, Thriller

Follow Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's leading exorcist, as he investigates the possession of a child and uncovers a conspiracy the Vatican has tried to keep secret.

Director: Julius Avery | Stars: Russell Crowe, Daniel Zovatto, Alexandra Essoe, Franco Nero

Votes: 82,963

2. The Man in the Iron Mask (I) (1998)

PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The cruel King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother whom he keeps imprisoned. Can the twin be substituted for the real king?

Director: Randall Wallace | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu

Votes: 178,763 | Gross: $56.97M

3. Swiss Army Man (2016)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A hopeless man stranded on a deserted island befriends a dead body, and together they go on a surreal journey to get home.

Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | Stars: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Antonia Ribero

Votes: 133,558 | Gross: $4.21M

4. The Third Day (2020)

TV-MA | 340 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A man and a woman make separate journeys to a mysterious island off the British coast.

Stars: Jude Law, John Dagleish, Mark Lewis Jones, Paddy Considine

Votes: 11,230

5. Bedazzled (1967)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.

Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch

Votes: 9,813

6. Scarlet Street (1945)

Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay

Votes: 19,174

7. The Devils (2002)

105 min | Drama

Orphaned 12-year-old twins Joseph and Chloé have been on the run together. Chloé is autistic, non-verbal and fears being touched. Joseph dearly loves her and dreams she will recover if they find their parents and fight the system.

Director: Christophe Ruggia | Stars: Vincent Rottiers, Adèle Haenel, Rochdy Labidi, Jacques Bonnaffé

Votes: 1,361

8. The Ladies Man (2000)

R | 84 min | Comedy

The Saturday Night Live (1975) character gets a big screen treatment.

Director: Reginald Hudlin | Stars: Tim Meadows, Karyn Parsons, Billy Dee Williams, John Witherspoon

Votes: 13,819 | Gross: $13.59M

9. Wise Guys (1986)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime

Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose two hundred fifty thousand dollars, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City, and comedy follows.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo, Harvey Keitel, Ray Sharkey

Votes: 6,349 | Gross: $8.48M

10. Held for Ransom (2019)

138 min | Biography, Drama, War

The story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye, who was captured by ISIS in Syria in 2013 and held hostage for 398 days.

Directors: Niels Arden Oplev, Anders W. Berthelsen | Stars: Esben Smed, Sofie Torp, Anders W. Berthelsen, Toby Kebbell

Votes: 4,699

11. Infinity Chamber (2016)

103 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape.

Director: Travis Milloy | Stars: Christopher Soren Kelly, Cassandra Clark, Cajardo Lindsey, Jesse D. Arrow

Votes: 11,738

12. Bang Bang You're Dead (2002)

R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Trevor is a troubled high school student, thanks to the effects of bullying. This is the story of his fight to break free.

Director: Guy Ferland | Stars: Tom Cavanagh, Ben Foster, Randy Harrison, Janel Moloney

Votes: 13,138

13. The Hurricane (1937)

Approved | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 3,042

14. The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)

Unrated | 97 min | Mystery, Thriller

French police inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a rich Paris widow and ends up chasing the killer up the Eiffel Tower's girders.

Directors: Burgess Meredith, Irving Allen, Charles Laughton | Stars: Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton

Votes: 1,025

15. Dead in a Week Or Your Money Back (2018)

TV-MA | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

After his ninth unsuccessful attempt on his own life, a young man outsources his suicide to an ageing assassin. "If you're serious about ending it, you need professional help"

Director: Tom Edmunds | Stars: Tom Wilkinson, Aneurin Barnard, Marion Bailey, Freya Mavor

Votes: 6,796

16. Europe '51 (1952)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama

A wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide.

Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini, Giulietta Masina

Votes: 4,784

17. Band of Angels (1957)

Passed | 125 min | Drama

Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Votes: 2,626

18. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)

PG | 120 min | Drama, History, Romance

In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.

Director: Mary McGuckian | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Kathy Bates

Votes: 3,682 | Gross: $0.04M

19. The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

This film is based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers. Graham is highly intelligent, but completely amoral. He becomes ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Ross | Stars: Hugh O'Conor, Antony Sher, Tobias Arnold, Ruth Sheen

Votes: 3,818 | Gross: $0.75M

20. 100 Days to Live (2019)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Thriller

When a serial killer abducts a young woman's fiancé, she must race against the clock to discover the identity of the killer, and more importantly - his motive.

Director: Ravin Gandhi | Stars: Colin Egglesfield, Gideon Emery, Heidi Johanningmeier, Yancey Arias

Votes: 4,382

21. Leave No Traces (2021)

R | 160 min | Drama

In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.

Director: Jan P. Matuszynski | Stars: Tomasz Zietek, Sandra Korzeniak, Jacek Braciak, Agnieszka Grochowska

Votes: 1,901

22. A Pain in the Ass (1973)

PG | 85 min | Comedy

Milan must kill Louis Randoni before he testifies in a court of law. He is disturbed by his depressed roommate François Pignon who commits suicide by hanging himself from the toilet pipe flooding Milan's room. Here he is stuck in problems.

Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Darras

Votes: 3,684

23. The Apple War (1971)

103 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A German business man, Volkswagner, comes to Österlen in the south of Sweden to build Deutschneyland, a gigantic amusement park for German tourists. The local councilors and the member of ... See full summary »

Director: Tage Danielsson | Stars: Per Grundén, Gösta Ekman, Sture Ericson, Ingvar Ottoson

Votes: 2,194

24. Rakshak (1996)

164 min | Action, Thriller

ASP Raj Sinha is assign with the task of bringing to justice the people who are responsible for printing and circulating fake currency notes. Raj is shocked when he learn that the leader ... See full summary »

Director: Ashok Honda | Stars: Suniel Shetty, Karisma Kapoor, Sonali Bendre, Raghuvaran

Votes: 389

25. Koibito-tachi wa nureta (1973)

76 min | Drama

Katsu, a fugitive youth on the run from the yakuza, returns to his birthplace and begins an affair with the cinema owner.

Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro | Stars: Rie Nakagawa, Toru Ohe, Moeko Ezawa, Chizuyu Azami

Votes: 249

26. Hard Luck (1921)

22 min | Short, Comedy

Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.

Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Bull Montana

Votes: 2,630

27. Road Movie (2002)

114 min | Romance, Drama

Suk-won, a trader who loses all of his money (and his wife) in a market downturn is left homeless until Dae-shik, a homeless loner, rescues him. Together the two travel across the country ... See full summary »

Director: In-shik Kim | Stars: Hwang Jung-min, Chan Jung, Rin Seo, Hyeong-gi Jeong

Votes: 337

28. The Voiceless (2020)

85 min | Comedy

A small clan of people lives in the underworld of a rubbish dump. Illegally, they recycle our waste in order to cobble their home together. And life there could be so sweet, were it not for the team of police officers hot on their heels.

Director: Pascal Rabaté | Stars: Yolande Moreau, Gustave Kervern, François Morel, David Salles

Votes: 86

29. 24 (2001–2010)
Episode: Day 3: 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. (2003)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Jack and Ramon are captured by dangerous prison inmates after trying to escape. President Palmer begins his debate with Senator Keeler. At CTU, Chloe O'Brian discovers evidence of Jack's heroin addiction.

Director: Jon Cassar | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert, Carlos Bernard, Reiko Aylesworth

Votes: 1,360

30. Oz (1997–2003)
Episode: Legs (1999)

TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In the boxing program, O'Reily spikes Robson's spritzer bottle before his bout with Cyril. Rebadow's mother tries to persuade him to meet his son and grandson. Meanwhile, Nappa finds out he's HIV-positive and is moved to Cell Block E.

Director: Keith Samples | Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney

Votes: 2,021

31. Oz (1997–2003)
Episode: Napoleon's Boney Parts (1999)

TV-MA | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

No one knows who killed Metzger. Meanwhile, McManus hires his friend Sean Murphy as a C.O. and he launches a boxing program. Hill faces a dilemma when a new inmate reveals a terrible crime.... See full summary »

Director: Matt Dillon | Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney

Votes: 2,027

32. Without a Trace (2002–2009)
Episode: Wannabe (2004)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The FBI investigates the disappearance of Eric Miller, a middle school student who disappeared during a bathroom break. He was only away for about ten minutes, so either he or his suspected... See full summary »

Director: David Barrett | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Poppy Montgomery, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Enrique Murciano

Votes: 362

33. Wycliffe (1993–1998)
Episode: Old Habits (1996)

TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ellie Creed, whose father has just been imprisoned, is found strangled and the pathologist notes a similarity with unsolved serial killings a decade earlier. Chief suspect is Hugh Samford, ... See full summary »

Director: John Glenister | Stars: Jenny Merrett, Helen Masters, Jack Shepherd, Tim Wylton

Votes: 69

34. Policías, en el corazón de la calle (2000–2003)
Episode: Caerá la espada sin filo (2000)

Action, Crime, Drama

Carlos and Lola have to stop a robbery in the same place were Lucías was killed last season. Remembering how he lost his partner Carlos struggles with the memories and ends up getting in ... See full summary »

Director: César Rodríguez Blanco | Stars: Adolfo Fernández, Natalia Millán, Daniel Guzmán, Toni Sevilla

35. The Blacklist (2013–2023)
Episode: The Hawaladar (No. 162) (2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Desperate for information about the whereabouts of a longtime friend, Red directs the Task Force to find a blacklister who specializes in untraceable money transfers. Meanwhile, Liz receives some disturbing news from her daughter Agnes.

Director: Paul Holahan | Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Amir Arison

Votes: 1,218

36. Sijipeuseu: The Myth (2021)
Episode: Episode #1.15 (2021)

Not Rated | 70 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

As Tae Sul tries to locate him, Sigma reveals more details about himself. Sun frees Seo Hae from the bunker.

Director: Jin Hyuk | Stars: Cho Seung-woo, Park Shin-hye, Dawn Anderson, Kim Byeong-cheol

Votes: 120

37. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Cold Blooded (2010)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A college student suffers a death at the hands of an animatronic dinosaur from a Las Vegas show, while the death of a man whose daughter and friend disappeared years ago is tied a new lead on the locations of their dead bodies.

Director: Louis Shaw Milito | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Marg Helgenberger, George Eads, Jorja Fox

Votes: 669

38. Flashpoint (2008–2012)
Episode: The War Within (2011)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Team One responds to a 911 call where a masked gunman threatens a group of teens and kidnaps one of them. As they pursue the investigation, it turns out the gunman is known to the youths ... See full summary »

Director: David Frazee | Stars: Tom Stevens, Joe Dinicol, Lawrence Dane, Tyler Stentiford

Votes: 161

39. CSI: Miami (2002–2012)
Episode: Last Straw (2012)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When a pair of sorority sisters are murdered, CSI's investigation focuses on another woman who was humiliated by the two as a pledge ten years earlier.

Director: Billy Gierhart | Stars: David Caruso, Emily Procter, Jonathan Togo, Rex Linn

Votes: 296

40. Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021– )
Episode: With Many Names (2023)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As OCCB and SVU close in on a callous and desperate suspect, the US Attorney benches Stabler and Benson. Bell and Fin must lead the team on a perilous task. Rollins confronts a witness who refuses to cooperate.

Director: John Polson | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Danielle Moné Truitt, Ainsley Seiger, Brent Antonello

Votes: 273

41. Mafia's Greatest Hits (2012– )
Episode: Joseph Valachi (2012)

TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

How Joseph Valachi knew there was a 'hit order' out on him, and lived in so much fear that he revealed Both the existence of, and the whole structure of the Mafia for the first time. ... See full summary »

Director: Gerry Pomeroy | Stars: Colin Tierney, Charles Bronson, James Cagney, Joseph Coffey

Votes: 9

42. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Gridiron Soldier (2014)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

SVU uncovers disturbing activities in a New York City college football program when a high school player disappears after a recruiting trip.

Director: Jean de Segonzac | Stars: Mariska Hargitay, Danny Pino, Kelli Giddish, Ice-T

Votes: 875

43. Bones (2005–2017)
Episode: The Nail in the Coffin (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The Jeffersonian team investigates the death of Stephanie McNamara, the daughter of a wealthy family whose remains were found in a national park. When the team digs deeper into the ... See full summary »

Director: Ian Toynton | Stars: Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, Tamara Taylor

Votes: 698

44. American Horror Story (2011– )
Episode: Tupperware Party Massacre (2014)

TV-MA | 44 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Jimmy wallows in self-pity, and Dandy sets out to destroy the man who deprived him of the twins. Meanwhile, Desiree meets an old flame, and Elsa and Stanley track the Tattlers.

Director: Loni Peristere | Stars: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Michael Chiklis, Frances Conroy

Votes: 3,578

45. Chicago P.D. (2014– )
Episode: You Wish (2017)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When a mutilated sex offender is found dead, it is unclear if he was the victim of a hate crime, sexual assault or self-mutilation. As Intelligence questions those related to the case, they... See full summary »

Director: Mark Tinker | Stars: Jason Beghe, Sophia Bush, Jesse Lee Soffer, Patrick John Flueger

Votes: 479

46. Britannia (2017–2021)
Episode: Initiation (2018)

TV-MA | 42 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

The battle of wills between Kerra and Antedia intensifies, as the Regni play their trump card. Aulus enlists deadly exiles to find Cait.

Director: Christoph Schrewe | Stars: David Morrissey, Kelly Reilly, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Eleanor Worthington-Cox

Votes: 462

47. American Crime Story (2016– )
Episode: Don't Ask, Don't Tell (2018)

TV-MA | 56 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Naval officer Jeffrey Trail meets Andrew Cunanan for the first time, while Gianni reveals his sexuality to the world.

Director: Daniel Minahan | Stars: Edgar Ramírez, Darren Criss, Ricky Martin, Penélope Cruz

Votes: 2,270

48. Maigret (2016–2017)
Episode: Maigret: Night at the Crossroads (2017)

88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Maigret: Night at the Crossroads tells a complex tale of murder, deceit and greed set in an isolated country community.

Director: Sarah Harding | Stars: Ben Caplan, Katherine Kanter, Robin Weaver, Wanda Opalinska

Votes: 4,441